Rajkumari Amrit Kaur was elected in the 1952 election, and it was
represented by current Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh in 1971 and
1980. More recently, it burst into the news as the constituency of
the tainted Sukh Ram who, barring 1989, has been representing
this seat consistently. In 1996, in fact, his margin over his nearest
BJP rival was around 15,000 votes.